Assisted suicide bill passes California Assembly and Belgian legislators seek to legalize euthanasia for the unconscious and children.
California:
AB 2747 would authorize total sedation without nutrition and hydration for depressed and confused patients, whether or not their natural death was imminent. The bill would also allow family members to order the death of a mentally disabled person when a nurse opines they have less than a year to live, similar to Terry Schindler Schiavo’s death at the hands of her husband.
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This is the fourth time that the assisted suicide bill has been pushed by Assembly Democrats Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine. But this year, instead of proposing to have doctors administer lethal injections, AB 2747 aims to produce death by sedation abuse, a clear violation of life-affirming medical ethics. Until now, total sedation has been used only when death was imminent – within hours or days – and when strong pain medication was not enough. Medical ethics require that food and water (nutrition and hydration) not be removed when sleep-inducing drugs are used, since doing so would cause unnatural, as opposed to natural, death. Yet AB 2747 pushes total sedation even if patients have not rejected food and water.
Belgium:
A group of legislators in Belgium is seeking to expand the practice of euthanasia to include those who are unconscious, as well as minors, according to a recent article in the Spanish newspaper Hoy.
The initiative, spearheaded by former Senator Jean-Jacques de Gucht, was originally launched in 2004 and failed, the article states.
The new proposed legislation will allow people to create a type of “living will” that will allow doctors to euthanize them if they are unconscious and unable to give consent.
While euthanasia has been legal in Belgium 2002, the existing law has prohibited the practice under the above-mentioned circumstances.
Doctors who refuse to kill their patients under the law will be required to refer them to a doctor who is willing to do it, reports Hoy.
Ah, progress. What would we do without it?
[cross-posted to PWPL]
You SIR, are pathetic.
Your article (http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1576/1211646535711xx4bj7.jpg) assumes that gamers play games to escape reality.
This is not the case, people play games just for fun, with their friends, or with people they don’t know online.
Gaming isn’t a lifestyle, it’s just a pass time. Most people agree that it is crazy to queue for hours outside bestbuy for a console.
The games industry has surpassed the movie industry.
You may be wondering how I came to posting this comment: I saw your article on another news site (www.reddit.com) along with a link to this blog, seeing no other way to contact you I am posting here (however feel free to email me, I am happy to discuss this further). The reason why I am posting is simply because your article was offensive, I thought it better to correct you than leave you thinking that a HUGE proportion of people are “pathetic”.
Thanks
This.
In the beginning, games were fun, but it was a different type of fun. It was like pinball: a test of skill and reflexes and luck, but nothing more.
Compare that to today’s games, which are more comparable to movies than to pinball machines. You have a protagonist, a plot (with a twist or two), and character development. Game producers take into account things like shot framing and lighting. You have full orchestral soundtracks and professional voice acting. Sure, the tests of skill and reflexes are still there, but they’re not the driving force behind games that they used to be.
So the author spent some time playing Mario. Good for her. But there’s a world of difference between “The princess is in another castle,” and “The princess has a dark and tortured past, which we’re going to explore in detail from several points of view against lush, cinematographic backdrops and haunting, atmospheric music.”
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WRT your article on gaming, as I was reading all I could hear was the following: http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/you_know_whats_stupid
I’ve read through most of your site. Without ever seeing a picture of you, I’m going to guess that you’re fat. Have a good day.
What a pleasure not having to read your hateful BS about Quebec in the Citizen any more. There is nothing like an ex-Quebecer who denied her roots to bash on Quebec. Maybe that’s why you can’t get pregnant. What comes around goes around. Your hatred of Quebec has probably programmed your brains not to reproduce yourself. Have a nice life en anglais.
SOMEONE HAS DIFFERENT INTERESTS THEN ME!
BLARGH!!!
I’m a student going to UCLA as an engineer and I read your article on gaming. I don’t know why you bash video games so much… do you not have anything better to do with your free time? Are you one of those fat chicks who tries to act more sophisticated than others so that she doesn’t feel like a total loser? Video games are a form of entertainment just like television, books, sodoku, etc. Because video games are interactive they offer something that many other forms of entertainment don’t have and so are getting more popular. You can bitch all you want but I would much rather play video games when I have some time to kill than whine on the internet about stupid shit that doesn’t affect me in any way like you do. Why don’t you write some uninformed article about the internet too? “Internet Users need to get a life!” -oh wait that’s you.